# Kareena Kapoor Khan, Prithviraj Sukumaran’s ‘Daayra’ to Launch Junglee Pictures-Pen Studios Slate Partnership (EXCLUSIVE)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/kareena-kapoor-khan-prithviraj-sukumarans-daayra-to-launch-junglee-pictures-pen-studios-slate-partnership-exclusive/
- Published: 2026-08-28T05:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-28T06:15:48+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/kareena-kapoor-khan-daayra-junglee-pictures-pen-studios-slate-1236845176/
- Topics: Art, Asia, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Film, World

## Key points

- Junglee Pictures and Pen Studios begin a new film partnership with “Daayra”.
- The crime thriller stars Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran.
- It arrives amid renewed growth in India’s Hindi-language box office.

## Summary

Junglee Pictures and Pen Studios have formed a film-slate partnership, launching it with “Daayra”, a crime thriller starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran and directed by Meghna Gulzar. The collaboration combines Junglee’s emphasis on story-led development with Pen’s production and theatrical distribution capabilities, aiming to create films with broad Indian and international appeal.

Inspired by true events, “Daayra” explores a crime’s aftermath and questions of guilt, punishment, legal limits and public expectations of justice; it is due in cinemas on 18 September. The deal comes amid a strong recovery in Indian theatrical business: Hindi cinema grossed $577 million in 2025, while Hindi films collected $295 million in the first half of 2026, with original Hindi-language productions accounting for 93% of Hindi box-office revenue in 2025.

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